Lexicographical Neighbors of Glegness
Literary usage of Glegness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"... but I heard, with my wonted glegness — what think you ? — a couple of handsome
smacks ! and then an almost inaudibly soft ' God bless you, Miss - ! ..."
2. The Second Post: A Companion to "The Gentlest Art" by Edward Verrall Lucas (1910)
"I saw nothing; but I heard, with my wonted glegness — what think you ? — a couple
of handsome smacks! and then an almost inaudibly soft "God bless you, ..."
3. Letters of Dr. John Brown by John Brown, Elizabeth T. McLaren (1907)
"... it goes everywhere and climbs like a goat; and then I have a little Terrier
of infinite humour and glegness, running like a ..."
4. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"glegness. ». Acuteness ; sharpness, S. GLEG-TONGUED, adj. Glib ; voluble, S.
Heart of Uid-Lothian. To GLEY, Gi.ii, vn 1. To squint, a 2. ..."
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